Janicki will discuss his successful efforts to remove raw sewage out of streams and waterways in impoverished communities around the world. When he traveled to rural communities in Africa, he was distressed to see children playing in the same water used to dump raw sewage. A powerful adage now drives Janicki’s work: “Make sewage valuable and they will not throw it into the environment; make it profitable and it will quickly scale to every corner of the earth.” With the creation of the Omni Processor, waterways in developing countries are being cleaned and sewage has become the goose that lays the golden egg.

Janicki is the founder and CEO of fast-growing Janicki Industries, which specializes in using composite materials and exotic metals to design and build one-of-a-kind high-precision parts and tooling for aerospace, marine, energy, space, military, transportation and architecture customers.

Over the last 20+ years, Janicki has led teams to develop materials and manufacturing processes in the composite and large-scale machining world at Janicki Industries. His leadership and innovation is what attracted the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to approach the Janicki team to assist them in solving the sanitation challenges in the developing world.